Cataloguing image collections in Intute

Cataloguing image collections in Intute

www.intute.ac.uk/

Mary Burslem, Intutem.burslem@arts.ac.uk

ARLIS Picture This!Wednesday 9th September 2009

A bit of history…

• First there was ADAM – art, design, architecture and media…

• Then Artifact - architecture, communication and media, design, fashion and beauty, performing arts and visual arts…

• Then there was Intute: Arts and Humanities

• And now Intute.

Images in Intute – museum / gallery collections• V&A’s objects

in the ceramics collection

Images in Intute – artists’ websites• Claude Heath’s

drawings

Images in Intute – website as art project

My boyfriend came back from the war’ created by Art.Teleportacia (Olia Lialina)

Discovery of images or collections• Email or discussion lists, such as JISCmail

• Alerting services

• Reading lists

• Advanced searches of search engines

• Following links within trusted sites

• Suggestions

• Exploring large websites for its distinct parts (granularity)

Adding metadata

We then add the key metadata fields:

• Title

• URL

• Description

• Keywords

• Classifications

• Resources types

• Resource creator

Description

Keywords

Classification

Classification

Resource Types

Thank you and keep in touch…

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